When you just can’t remember…
Posted by mindedit on October 17, 2007
Don’t you just hate it when you just can’t remember something you only just thought of…
No I wasn’t dizzy at the time either. I woke up at about 2.00 in the morning, bad dreams. As I lay there trying to drift back off to sleep, I couldn’t help but think. Well I was too sleepy to try any of the quieten your mind stuff, so there it was, thoughts.
So I lay there thinking and it occurred to me that I could get a programmer at work that I know to build a really simple application for me that would just save a bit of time and effort when messing with words for sigils. Why was I thinking about the mechanics of sigil creation as used in Chaos Magick at 2.00 in the morning? I don’t know, I just was.
I realised then that I wasn’t just going to drift off to sleep. So I put my bedside light on and did some reading. After an hour or so I thought I’d risk trying to fall asleep again. As I finally started to drift off to sleep I had an idea….
All day today I was trying to recall what that idea had been, I knew it was something helpful to me, not Earth saving or anything. I went over in my mind what was in the book and any tangential trains of thought but I couldn’t quiet grasp it.
All day I was screwing over what I had forgotten. Every spare moment I had, my thoughts turned back to trying to recall my lost memory.
By about 7.00 in the evening I had resigned myself to the fact that I’d probably never remember. Well it couldn’t have been that important could it?
I was having a smoke out the back round about 8.00ish and I was thinking about how I really should update my database that I have for recording meetings and what not at work. And that’s when I finally REMEMBERED!
I couldn’t believe it. It was nothing to do with the book I’d been reading. I’m not sure why I was thinking about improving my database at 3.00 in the morning though, that’s a little bit sad I suppose.
But isn’t it odd how you remember stuff when you’re not trying to. When your mind is on something else altogether. I read somewhere, that relaxation helps the memory process, can’t quiet remember where I read that though…
